{"id":7212,"date":"2020-11-30T22:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2020-11-30T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:43:04","slug":"devotional-on-isaiah-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-isaiah-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Bwq6rgf7dR4\/X8VH9HIAq0I\/AAAAAAABHuU\/MPB3xAsUUoIsKqvFbeFUPPKyX8rP5vpTACPcBGAsYHg\/s1280\/Lost%2BMaples%2BSt.%2BPark%2Bvicinity%2B%2B11-28-2006%2B10-17-56%2BAM.JPG\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lost Maples State Park, TX &#8211; 2006<\/figcaption><\/figure>Living Water<br \/>\nIsaiah 12: Joyfully you&#8217;ll pull up buckets of water from the wells of salvation.<br \/>\nAs I read this statement from Isaiah about drawing &#8220;buckets of water from the wells of salvation&#8221; I can\u2019t help but think of Jesus and the woman at the well.  Jesus offers the Samaritan woman &#8220;living water&#8221; that she might &#8220;never thirst again.&#8221;  As I see Isaiah promising a day when abundant &#8220;salvation water&#8221; will be available and remember Jesus offering just such water, well, I can&#8217;t help but focus in on this wonderful offer.  I&#8217;m glad today that Jesus didn&#8217;t just offer a philosophy of life or a new approach to religion.  Instead, his &#8220;well of salvation&#8221; contains that which is &#8220;living&#8221; and fully satisfying.  Whether Isaiah&#8217;s prophecy really applies here or not, it does remind me of all Jesus has made available.   In the words of the woman at the well, &#8220;Give me that living water that I might never thirst again.&#8221;<br \/>\nTake Away: The \u201cliving water\u201d is nothing other than an abiding relationship with the Lord, himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Water Isaiah 12: Joyfully you&#8217;ll pull up buckets of water from the wells of salvation. As I read this statement from Isaiah about drawing &#8220;buckets of water from the wells of salvation&#8221; I can\u2019t help but think of Jesus and the woman at the well. Jesus offers the Samaritan woman &#8220;living water&#8221; that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,7],"tags":[131,686,941,1085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14932,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions\/14932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}